Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋
#ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
New work out! Mosaic uses images, sound, video and data to build a portrait of a western NSW wetland.
It's an experiment in environmental data-storytelling and using #conservationtech for public engagement. With waterbirds galore, feral critters and livestock, it's also an attempt to show the […]
Top view of a moth whose wings have a a bold black and creamy white pattern across them
The autumn nights are definitely getting cooler in the Perth Hills… down to a rather chilly 11°C last night 🍂
Still a few brave moths about though, including this rather lovely Scoparia exhibitalis.
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Kookaburra in autumn sun 🐦☀️
#kookaburra #LaughingKookaburra #birds #WildOz #sydney #australia #BirdPhotography
Picture of a beetle which is generally blueish in colour and which has largish mandibles
Top view of a beetle which is generally blueish purple in colour and which has largish mandibles
Carenum sp. (possibly Carenum occidentale)
A beautifully coloured predatory ground beetle which is endemic to arid regions of Western Australia. This guy was hanging out under our moth trap last night 🪲
#ausinverts #wildoz #Coleoptera #Carabidae #beetle #inaturalist
Side view of a large moth hanging from a dry stem. The moth is green with brown markings on the sage and across the middle of the forewings. She has long green scales resembling hair at the back of the head
Aenetus djernaesae - Marie’s Splendid Ghost Moth
Spotted this stunning female Ghost Moth (Hepialidae) in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth last night. This species appears to be endemic to Western Australia.
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Sunrise over a coastal dune showing a peachy pink sky over gently rolling green covered sand dunes with low lying smoke from a bushfire visible
Grammodes ocellata, the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia
Armactica conchidia
Currently in an area characterised by coastal dune systems and we’re seeing a good diversity of moths including:
Grammodes ocellata - the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia - both female (bottom left) and male (bottom right)
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Superb Fairy-wren trying to escape my lens... Lamington National Park, Qld
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #wren #fairy-wren #WildOz
Eucyclodes buprestaria - emerald green moth on a beige stone wall
Large plume of smoke and clouds over a controlled bushfire
Just had the biggest number of moths visit our moth trap that we’ve ever seen. There must have been 400+ moths along with several new species.
There was a large bushfire near us yesterday, not sure if that contributed to the bumper numbers 🤔
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Magpie siblings deciding who will be more dominant or just brothers arm (leg) wrestling? The one on the left is usually more dominant. Their sister watched on from the sidelines. They stayed in this position for over 2 minutes.
#birds #magpie #birdwatching #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz
Side view of two moths, one much larger than the other. The larger moth has white wings with a pattern of black and red patches across them. It is facing a much smaller moth that is brown in colour. Zooming in shows that the much smaller moth has several patches of raised scales making it look quite spikey.
It's always nice to bump into a friend
This beautifully coloured Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) was sitting face to face with a very tiny and rather spikey looking Leptozestis sp. moth at our moth light recently.
#teammoth #mothfacefriday #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Male Powerful Owl in suburban Brisbane this morning. The female was about 20m away in another tree.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
My favourite Powerful Owl pair in the late afternoon yesterday. They are definitely gearing up for breeding season, roosting close together only about 30m from a nest hollow tree.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Buffelpalooza!
AW’s Jess Burdon and Paula Modra visited Mparntwe (Alice Springs) for the NY Government’s buffel get-together. Paula and Jess gave a presentation on AW’s work, and other presentations covered different management styles for buffel across the region.
#wildoz #buffel #wons
Day of the Species brings together an extraordinary collective effort to document all 2,105 plants and animals on Australia’s national threatened species list.
📍 On view 2-20 April at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, 11am-5pm daily. Free entry.
👉 More info: facebook.com/events/2180727469403500 #wildoz
A damp #wombat searching for juicy grass shoots to nibble amongst a sea of tough alpine coral fern.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats
A Pink-tailed Worm-lizard.
For this #WildlifeWednesday is the vulnerable Pink-tailed Worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella). These worm-like lizards can grow up to 24cm and spend much of their time in burrows made by ants or termites, feeding on the eggs and larvae of the ants inhabiting the same burrow!
📷 Geoff Heard
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Weedy Wednesday
AW staff visited Tallaringa Conservation Park after recent grading of the Anne Beadell Highway to check on buffel grass. With recent rainfall in the area, more surveillance will be needed to ensure there is no further spread of buffel.
#wildoz #buffel #wons
Top view of a large moth whose wings are a bright lemon yellow with a variable black serrated line near the bottom and with each forewing having two black spots.
Anthela inornata
We are seeing quite a few of these lovely moths at the minute.
They are quite large, with a wingspan of 6-7cm, and can be seen in early autumn in Western Australia and South Australia
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A black and white bird gripping the stem of a Red Hot Poker - a green stem with an orange-red flower.
Through a bedroom window for this one, a New Holland Honeyeater in the much maligned Red Hot Pokers. Yes, an environmental weed in #Tasmania . This year I’ve planted additional natives for the #honeyeaters and, once established & flowering, the Poker will go. #WildOz #Nature #Birding #Wildlife
A Eucalypt tree, with peeling bark with green, brown and yellow hues. Sitting on a branch is a bird - also with green, brown and yellow hues. Directly in front of the bird is a spiders web with water droplets highlighting its shape.
A bit of a dodgy capture through the loungeroom window, on a wet and misty day. A Yellow-throated Honeyeater, endemic to #Tasmania contemplating a spider web in the branches of a eucalyptus, whose trunk has similar hues to the bird. #WildOz #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #SoTas
Common, but rarely-spotted, White-breasted Woodswallows are found across most of Aust, and SE Asia, in small groups along water courses and in coastal mangroves. Related to magpies, butcherbirds & burrawongs rather than swallows, they were first described in 1771 by Linnaeus himself! #birds #WildOz
Top view of a moth with ochre brown forewings that bold white stripes down the. The stripe in the middle is forked towards the base of the wings
The wild weather over the weekend has certainly mixed things up with an influx of different moths into our Perth Hills garden.
This lovely moth is Hednota tenuilineata, a species endemic to Western Australia and a new observation for us.
#teammorh #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A bright blue bird bath set among green bracken. In the bird bath stands a large Black Currawong, with piercing yellow eyes. It is staring at a second Black Currawong that is on the ground. There’s only room for one of them in the bird bath.
Another taken through the kitchen window - our #Tasmanian Black Currawongs appear to be sorting out who has first rights to the #bird bath (with the winner giving the loser an impressive death stare).
#WildOz #Nature #Birding #SoTas
